AbbeyfealeCo. Limerick vs CastletroyCo. LimerickTown level

The same comparison as the area page, but measured for the town itself, not the whole Eircode routing key.

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iBoth towns sit in the same Eircode area V94 — on the routing-key area page they would read as one number. At town level they diverge. Each figure below is tagged with the geographic level it's actually measured at.
!Castletroy is a city suburb — its boundary follows the postal area (the Small Areas whose addresses carry the name), not an official settlement line, so it can run broader than the local core and the figures cover that wider postal patch.
Abbeyfeale
Castletroy

Outlines are each town's CSO Small Areas — the exact footprint every figure is measured over.

TOWNS
Abbeyfeale
Co. LIMERICK · in V94 · pop 1,892 · 9 small areas
Castletroy
Co. Limerick · in V94 · pop 16,540 · 53 small areas
Prices & market● TOWN · exact
Median sale price
€200k
€372k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€104k – €272k
€304k – €431k
Sales (24m)
64
501
Price momentum (YoY)
+0.1%
New-build share
0.0%
4.3%
Schools, health & amenities● TOWN · counts
Count of each facility whose location falls inside the town boundary. Bigger towns naturally score higher — read alongside population.
Schools
2 prim · 1 sec
3 prim · 2 sec
Abbeyfeale · 3 schools (largest first)
Coláiste Íde Agus Iosaef Secondary
692 pupils · 70% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONAL
Convent Of Mercy N S Primary
104 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Abbeyfeale B N S 1 Primary
98 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Castletroy · 6 schools (largest first)
Castletroy College Secondary
1,329 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · INTER DENOMINATIONAL
Limerick City East Secondary School Secondary
714 pupils · 70% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONAL
University Of Limerick Third-level
enrolment n/a · university
Scoil Moin A Lin Primary
847 pupils · Catholic
Milford Grange N School Primary
479 pupils · Catholic
Gaelscoil Chaladh An Treoigh Primary
417 pupils · Catholic
Creches
4
12
GP practices
0
1
Pharmacies
0
6
Hospitals
0
1
Bus stops
4
34
Rail / Luas stops
0
0
Gyms & leisure
0
0
Parks & playgrounds
0
0
Sports pitches
0
0
Commute by car● TOWN · from centre
Drive time from the town centre to each city centre — typical off-peak, with an estimated weekday rush hour. OSRM road routing.
Limerick
58m · ~75 rush
9m · ~15 rush
Galway
128m · ~150 rush
86m · ~110 rush
Cork
96m · ~120 rush
91m · ~115 rush
Waterford
163m · ~175 rush
118m · ~130 rush
Dublin
188m · ~225 rush
138m · ~175 rush
Affluence & profile● ELECTORAL DIVISION
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-11.6
5.5
Abbeyfeale · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-13AbbeyfealeDisadvantaged
-10AbbeyfealeDisadvantaged
Castletroy · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
+4BallysimonAffluent
+7BallysimonAffluent
Third-level educated
24.9%
59.5%
Professional class
27.4%
42.5%
Unemployment
19.4%
8.5%
Owner-occupier
60.1%
59.2%
Private rental
20.0%
37.9%
Social housing (LA)
16.5%
3.0%
Liveability & safety● AREA · V94 / V94
Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (AbbeyfealeV94, CastletroyV94); safety & crime are the Limerick Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.
Quality of Life
62/100
62/100

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (V94 / V94) from official data — Garda crime, CSO income & census, OPW flood, EPA water, and transport/healthcare/broadband coverage. Refreshed quarterly. The dashed line is each town's overall score (that average) — dimensions to its right beat the average, to its left fall short. Two towns can share a score with a very different mix.

AbbeyfealeCastletroyOverall (avg)
Safety62426242
Affordability8989
Infrastructure8383
Family7272
Education4646
Environment6262
Economic4040
020406080100020406080100
National rank
#66
#66
County rank
#1
#1
Safety
42/100
42/100
Crime / 1,000
88.4
88.4

Affluence range

Pobal HP deprivation index — published per Electoral Division, so the spread shows the town's poorest to richest ED. A town that is a single ED shows one mark, no range.

Abbeyfeale Disadvantaged-11.6
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Abbeyfeale -13 (least affluent) → Abbeyfeale -10 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.
Castletroy Affluent+5.5
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Ballysimon +4 (least affluent) → Ballysimon +7 (most affluent). Even its least-affluent neighbourhood is above the national average.

How accurate is this, and at what level?

● TOWN
Prices, amenities & commute — exact, town-specific.

Prices come from individual PPR sales inside the town's Small-Area boundary; schools, GPs, transport, gyms and parks are counted the same way; commute is routed from the town centre. The figures the routing-key area page can't give you.

● ED
Affluence, profile & tenure — Electoral-Division level.

Pobal HP, third-level, class, unemployment, tenure are published per Electoral Division and averaged across the town's EDs — a range where the town spans several EDs (see the bar above).

● AREA
Liveability & safety — wider-area, not the town.

Quality of life and rank are per Eircode routing key; safety & crime are the Garda division (Limerick) — coarser than a town, so two towns in the same county read the same.

Population & growth are loaded for ~7 counties so far (not Leinster yet); rent & yield are too sparse per town. Tap Schools or Affluence to drill in. Built from 62 CSO Small Areas.
AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
AbbeyfealeCastletroy
The verdict

Castletroy is the stronger town on the data — it leads on 5 of the 7 dimensions to Abbeyfeale’s 1, with 1 level: affluence, education levels, schools & amenities, public transport and access to its nearest city. Abbeyfeale leads on affordability.

Higher is better on every spoke — affluence, education, amenity density, transport, safety, affordability and nearest-city access, scored head-to-head.

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